December, 2009

5-day Integrated Course on Axial Turbine Fundamentals and Turbomachinery Flow Path Design with AxSTREAM took place in Singapore on December 15-19.

SoftInWay held free webinar “Axial Turbine Overhaul. Flow Path Efficiency: Strategy for 2010” that addressed the challenges power station and airline engineers usually faced between overhauls. The webinar included a presentation of AxSTREAM and gathered participants from 11 countries worldwide.

November, 2009

On November 9-13 SoftInWay organized an intensive course for professional engineers in Düsseldorf, Germany.

October, 2009

Mass High Tech, the Journal of New England Technology, has recognized SoftInWay Inc. among the recipients of its 2009 TechCitizenship Awards. This award is usually given to companies which made a notable contribution into the development of charitable, non-profit and community organizations throughout New England. SoftInWay is honored to be awarded by MHT that has been serving the technology and innovation community since 1983 and currently has 15,000 subscribers.

On October 29 SoftInWay held free webinar for engineers “Integrated System for Rapid 3D FEA and 3D CFD Analysis of Turbomachinery in AxSTREAM”.

September, 2009

Free webinar “Designing the Flow Paths of Mixed Flow Compressors” was organized by the SoftInWay team on September 15.

Tusas Engine Industry Inc., a joint venture between GE, TAI, TSKGV and THK, one of the leaders of Turkish aerospace industry, has given preference to AxSTREAM while selecting a software solution to design new aircraft engines. “We strongly believe that AxSTREAM will add to our existing design capabilities for advanced technology components in our engine projects.” – said Ali Dinç, TEI Design Engineering Manager. More >>

On September 21-25 SoftInWay hosted the Intensive Training Course on Axial Turbine Fundamentals and Turbomachinery Design with AxSTREAM which took place in Düsseldorf, Germany. This course received very positive feedback from the attendees from the leading engineering companies and technology universities.

August, 2009

On August 9-14 SoftInWay participated in the International Symposium on Heat Transfer in Gas Turbine Systems that was held in Antalya (Turkey) and presented its paper “Comparison of Counter-Rotating and Traditional Axial Aircraft Low-pressure Turbines Integral and Detailed Performances”. The paper covers today’s challenges of engine development and describes a counter-rotating turbine as a more efficient and less fuel-consuming solution to provide the highest gain in performances.

July, 2009

The Pennsylvania State University has adopted AxSTREAM software to incorporate it into the curriculum of its Engineering Department to teach Gas Turbines and Turbomachinery during the academic year F09-SP10.

EURO/CFD, one of the leading providers of CFD solutions in France, has become a new distributor of SoftInWay to expand the company’s presence in the French market.

On July 14 in Bangalore, India, SoftInWay in association with DesignTech Systems Ltd conducted an introductory seminar on AxSTREAM as software for design, analysis and multidisciplinary optimization of turbomachinery flow path. The seminar was a great success among turbomachinery manufacturers seeking to cut costs without sacrificing product reliability and attracted particular attention of the local press.

On July 23 SoftInWay organized free webinar “Design and Multidisciplinary Optimization of Turbomachinery with AxSTREAM”. This real-time event was attended by engineers from 17 countries who gained a deeper insight into turbomachinery flow path optimization using such disciplines as stress and vibration, aerodynamics and heat transfer.

June, 2009

On June 5-7 in Orlando (FL, USA) SoftInWay held a 3-day intensive course focused on design, analysis, optimization and retrofit of axial/radial turbomachinery with AxSTREAM. After this educational event the company participated in Turbo Expo 2009 from June 8-12.

On June 18 SoftInWay successfully conducted free webinar “AxSTREAM in Turbomachinery Education – from a couple of parameters to complete 3D flow path design in a few classes”. The webinar included a guest speaker Dr. Ian Halliwell and received extremely positive feedback from the professors, students and engineers who attended.

May, 2009

SoftInWay has organized free 1-hour webinar Design and Re-design of Flow-Path for High-Efficiency Steam and Gas Turbine that took place on May 14 at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. EST.

New training course Steam Turbine Fundamentals has been released by SoftInWay. The program represents a comprehensive 4-day class focused on steam turbine basics, thermodynamics, gas dynamics and structural analysis. This course is dedicated to engineers who want to gain more profound knowledge of steam turbine and its elements to improve the design and optimization practice.

April, 2009

On April 16, 2009 SoftInWay held webinar Analyzing Axial Compressor Performance to Optimize the Costs of Manufacturing, Repairs and Overhauls where engineers from 13 countries involved in the process, power station and airline industries participated.

SoftInWay Inc. has launched new release AxSTREAM 2.5.2. Starting from this release, the Streamline solver will perform 1D and 2D analysis for radial turbine. AxFLOW (3D flow solver) is expanding to calculate water and gas with models based on the Van der Waals and Redlich-Kwong equations of state. Also, the k-e turbulence model was introduced to AxFLOW.

February, 2009

SoftInWay celebrates 10 years in business. Among the company's greatest achievements are the development of the unique and effective software for multidisciplinary turbomachinery flow path design - AxSTREAM™ and finding reputed clients worldwide, to name just a few: Dresser-Rand (USA), Wood Group (Switzerland), Stork Turbo Services (Germany) and many others. On the occasion of its anniversary SoftInWay announces a special offer for academia.

On February 20 SoftInWay conducted free 1-hour webinar Flow Path of Turbomachinery: Three Questions to Engineers of Power Station and Airline between Overhauls: When to Do, What to Do and What We Will Gain.

AxSTREAM Turbomachinery Flow Path Design and Optimization Workshop was held in Boston, MA, US, on February 24-26.

January, 2009

On January 27 SoftInWay conducted 1-day introductory seminar AxSTREAM - Software System for Design, Analysis and Multidisciplinary Optimization of Turbomachinery Flow Path in Tokyo. The seminar took place in Yebisu Garden Place and was dedicated to mechanical and aerospace engineers seeking to raise efficiency of turbomachinery and to design/redesign an optimized flow path using AxSTREAM. Among the participants there were representatives of 25 companies. During the seminar Dr. Leonid Moroz, President and CEO of SoftInWay, outlined the specifics of today's axial and radial turbomachinery design and presented the new features of the AxSTREAM software.

SoftInWay expanded its team by adding two new members to Sales and Marketing Department. As International Sales Manager, Ronnie Lindgren will strengthen the company's presence in the international market, while Chris Bocci will concentrate on promoting AxSTREAM in North America in the capacity of National Sales Manager.

December, 2008

SoftInWay has released an innovated Educational Version for Turbomachinery Flow Path Design, Analysis and Optimization. The new educational suite was tailored to the newly-launched AxSTREAM 2.4.1.1 characterized by the adaptation of the Streamline Solver to centrifugal compressors, more detailed Mollier diagram, the inclusion of Campbell diagram and enhanced 3D flow module AxFLOW (Euler and potential flow solvers).

On December 3-5 SoftInWay conducted its training on turbomachinery flow path design and optimization in Dusseldorf, Germany. The attendees from France, Germany, Great Britain, Korea and Turkey were acquainted with the fundamentals of turbomachinery design with AxSTREAM, choosing a particular topic to study. SoftInWay also presented the new features of the 3rd generation of AxSTREAM, such as the new structure of internal database, customizable fluid and loss models and tables of real gas and thermal perfect gas specifications for two kinds of fluid models.

November, 2008

SoftInWay participated in 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in Boston, October 31 - November 6, 2008. In the course of the congress SoftInWay presented its paper on the Integrated Conceptual Design Environment for Centrifugal Compressors Flow Path Design. The paper covers centrifugal and mixed-type compressors flow path design grounded on a unique integrated conceptual design environment. The new method is aimed at optimizing the whole process of turbomachinery flow path design, cutting engineering costs.

October, 2008

Another SoftInWay turbomachinery workshop was held in Boston on October 7-9 in the context of 2008 Turbomachinery Flow Path Design and Optimization Course. During this interactive workshop SoftInWay turbomachinery design engineers presented their latest innovations and showed how to make a turbine/compressor quickly and efficiently using AxSTREAM. The curriculum included interactive courses on axial compressor, axial turbine, centrifugal compressors, turbochargers, fans, blowers and turbopumps engineering and optimization.

September, 2008

SoftInWay relaunched its Educational Version for Turbomachinery Flow Path Design. The new version features new Streamline Solvers that are meant to analyze multistage turbomachinery flow path and flow path with counter-rotating blade rows. The main goal of the Streamline Solvers’ implementation was to improve the overall practice of axial and radial turbine and compressor design.

July, 2008

On July 21 - 23 SoftInWay Inc. took part in AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit in Hartford, CT, USA. SoftInWay was exhibiting its AxSTREAM™ software suite of multidisciplinary design, analysis and optimization of turbomachinery flow path. The main interest of attendees was the capabilities of AxSTREAM to design turbopump for space applications.

June, 2008

On June, 9-13th SoftInWay Inc. took part in annual ASME TurboExpo 2008 Exhibition which took place in Estrel Berlin Exhibition Hall & Convention Center. SoftInWay presented its AxSTREAM conceptual turbomachinery design and optimization system. During exhibitions President of Softinway Inc. Dr. Leonid Moroz had a stage presentation about upgrade turbine performance through retrofit in AxSTREAM.